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PHIL. POLICE & FIRE ASS'N v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Nos. 88-1883, 88-1909 and 89-1116.

874 F.2d 156 (1989)

PHILADELPHIA POLICE AND FIRE ASSOCIATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, INC., Phillip Joseph Barrett, Debbie Callaghan, Gina Marie Coccia, Colleen Devaney, Bernadine Doughty, William Engle, David Joseph Fialkowski, Thomas Edward Foley, Robert G. Fulmer, Dianne Gradel, Suzanne Gress, Matthew T. Hoag, Anthony T. Hulem, Elliot N. Jaffee, William J. Jaffee, Edward Kelly, David Andrew Kensil, Yanina Kopyt, Helen Posusney, Michael V. Powell, Loretto Ricciardi, David W. Rickolds, David E. Rounds, Dennis Rowan, Diane Rubis, Dorothy Schaeffler, Joseph R. Steffen, Elizabeth Sturkey, Dennis P. Torrieri, William Watson, Judith Weick, Michael Weinberg, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Maurice Clifford, Robert Glover, John White, Jr., Steven Eidelman. Appeal of CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Maurice Clifford, and Robert Glover, Appellants in No. 88-1883. Appeal of COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Secretary and Deputy Secretary, Appellants in Nos. 88-1909 and 89-1116.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1989.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour Kurland, City Sol., Richard J. Gold (argued), First Deputy City Sol., Doris M. Leisch, Chief Asst. City Sol., City of Philadelphia Law Dept., Philadelphia, Pa., for City of Philadelphia etc., appellants in No. 88-1883.

Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Atty. Gen., David M. Donaldson, (argued), Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen., Laura Fredricks, Deputy Atty. Gen., John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., for Com. of Pa., Dept. of Public Welfare Secretary, and Deputy Secretary, appellants in Nos. 88-1909 and 89-1116.

David Ferleger (argued), Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia Police and Fire Ass'n for Handicapped Children, etc., appellees.

Macdonald Flinn, Robert S. Herbst, White & Case, New York City, amici curiae, for The Ass'n for Retarted Citizens etc.

Robert J. Sugarman, Sugarman & Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae, for Philadelphia Coalition of Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Centers, Inc.

Before GIBBONS, Chief Judge, and BECKER and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Chief Judge:

The City of Philadelphia and its mental retardation officials, Health Commissioner Maurice Clifford and Mental Health/Mental Retardation Administrator Robert Glover, (collectively "Philadelphia"), and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its Secretary of Public Welfare, John F. White, Jr., and his Deputy Secretary for Retardation, Steven Eidelman, (collectively "the Commonwealth") appeal from a district court order...

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